TALK: Daniel Ross (PhD Candidate, University of Illinois; UC Riverside)
Do., 24. Sept.
|Zoom Talk
Title: A preliminary typology of Multi-Verb Constructions across "Khoisan" Time: 15:00 (UTC) Botswana/Germany/Namibia/South Africa 17:00 (UTC +2), Angola/Portugal 16:00 (UTC +1), Arizona 8:00 (UTC -7), Japan 00:00 (UTC +9)
Time
24. Sept. 2020, 17:00
Zoom Talk
Abstract
ABSTRACT:
In this talk, I consider the distribution of multi-verb constructions in Khoisan languages from a typological perspective. Interestingly, like the shared feature of click consonants, there are similarities in the multi-verb constructions in these languages, which cut across genetic groupings, but also vary within them, suggesting potential contact effects. (The similarities are generally absent from neighboring Bantu languages.)
In particular, I consider pseudocoordination, which is relatively common among these languages (Ross 2016), despite being a feature best known from European languages (e.g. English "go and get" or "try and do"). Serial verb constructions are also widespread, and the typology applied distinguishes between form and function, such that pseudocoordination differs from SVCs by the presence of a linker, but otherwise is functionally similar. This in turn may shed some light on so-called junctures in some languages, and may suggest an etymological relationship with coordinators.
In contrast to earlier comparative studies…